Well, according to a new study, blame the micro RNAs (miRNAs) linked to the X chromosome. The study, published in  BioEssays, investigated the observation that women live longer than males and…

Tomorrow is the last day on duty. For twenty-six years the Tevatron collider, the four-mile-long accelerator of the Fermi laboratory in Batavia (IL), has provided the CDF and DZERO experiments with…

Drawn by the newly arrived throngs of Humboldt squid in Southern California, an underwater photographer hopped in the water with them to snap some photos. They're smallish for Humboldts, but note…

Early in 2007, I wrote a few articles lamenting that framing, by journalists and bloggers, was going to end badly, along with assertions about science being settled, which is a fundamentally anti-…

Early in 2007, I wrote a few articles lamenting that framing, by journalists and bloggers, was going to end badly, along with assertions about science being settled, which is a fundamentally anti-…

Since the bulk of academic research has been taxpayer-funded, it's become increasingly silly to allow private companies to take ownership of the results.   Congress passed a law declaring NIH-…

Since the bulk of academic research has been taxpayer-funded, it's become increasingly silly to allow private companies to take ownership of the results.   Congress passed a law declaring NIH-…

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." — attributed to Charles Darwin. There is general agreement that the…

No, seriously.   Christopher Jonassen took pictures of worn-out frying pans but, if you are a Science 2.0 reader, you probably thought they were planets in a remote galaxy. See all of them. H/T…

No, seriously.   Christopher Jonassen took pictures of worn-out frying pans but, if you are a Science 2.0 reader, you probably thought they were planets in a remote galaxy. See all of them. H/T…

Where would we be without relativity? Observations in astronomy are based on light emitted from stars and galaxies and the light will be affected by gravity, according to the General Theory of…

The first video of tool use by a fish has been published in the journal Coral Reefs by Giacomo Bernardi, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.…

Ice cream is big business in America.  Sales of ice cream and frozen desserts top $20 billion annually, according to the International Dairy Food Association, which is about 1.6 billion gallons…

My attention has been drawn to this, by Anthony Watts: Video analysis and scene replication suggests that Al Gore’s Climate Reality Project fabricated their Climate 101 video “Simple Experiment” I…

When I want a popsicle, I want a popsicle, I don't need the popsicle framed through social justice issues or a world view, but if you need a certain kind of popsicle to assuage your liberal guilt…

When I want a popsicle, I want a popsicle, I don't need the popsicle framed through social justice issues or a world view, but if you need a certain kind of popsicle to assuage your liberal guilt…

One evening last spring, Peter nearly stopped breathing. He was riding in the car with his mother, April, who was taking the 11-year-old boy back from a visit to the ER for one of his chronic…

14 space agencies walk into a bar... Okay, no joke.  The ISECG Initiative (I added 'Initiative' because it sounds more sci-fi) is an attempt to basically let individuals at different science…

On the way to work this morning, I noticed people pointing out the train window and smiling. From middle-aged suits to angst-ridden hipsters, faces changed from jaded to serene - there was a rainbow…

I'm so used to calling computers, phones, and all sorts of other devices "electronics" that I tend to forget that word means something very specific. It means those toys are manipulating the flow of…